Well all Magna-Matic sharpeners come with the safety guards, and all have vacuum ports so people can use an air cleaner or shop vac.

With our machines a lot of people use shop-vacs, or people will wear mouth/nose masks. We have some landscapers that will purchase the wheel kits for our stands so they can grind outside so they are not in a room with the dust.

I've had the mag 9000 for many years now and from day one I've worn a respirator and full face shield when grinding. Even though I have a shop vac hooked to it to catch the particles there are still many on the floor and I'm sure airborne. Don't need that stuff in my lungs.

A shop vac will help, but it does not do a great job. If you want more of the particles collected an industrial air cleaner would be required, but keep in mind they are very expensive. Even they will leave some of the heavy particles on the floor, but they will get almost all of the dust and smoke.